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Weight Loss: Would You Hold a "Fat Off" With Your Friends?

Does your calendar have "Beer O'Clock", "Whiskey-Thirty", and "Quarter Till Gin" penciled-in for your social hours? These chefs's schedules did, and that's one of (many) the reasons they chose to have a "Fat Off" with each other to lose weight they'd put on after long hours in front of food. At stake: tons of pride...and a whole bunch of cash.

In the New Yorker, Sarah Paley wrote about a group of chefs at West Village, NYC restaurant Fedora who had a month-long competition to shed pounds. Each contestant put in a hundred bucks, and with a bunch of entrants--the staff is BIG!--the guys geared up with multiple strategies to lose the most body fat. (And yes, they tried to sabotage each other. Ugh, boys will be boys, even when they're grown men, pro chefs.)